Offsetting Is Not Creating Additional Face within Original

[AGiam9]

Hi all,

I ran into a problem today where I had a wall that I needed to create inset wall panels on. Typically, I just use the offset tool, and push the newly created face back to create the inset. This time, however, when ever I drew the offset, the created shape would come up bold and separate from the original face.

I had no idea why it was doing this, and assumed that even if I had at some point messed up and had the shape off an axis plane, the offset tool should automatically create the new shape along the plane of the original shape.

So I tried to manually create the offset first using the tape measure tool and locking the lines to the guide lines. This did not work either.

At this point I was frustrated, so I took the original face, copied it and deleted the space on the wall (plan was to create the panels as a separate component and just move it into the space), and pasted it outside of my model. I checked the lines to see that they were on the axis planes and they were. Even then, upon using offset the newly created shape was not being intersected with the original face.

At this point, I got extremely frustrated and just started drawing rectangles all over the face. Eventually, one of them stuck somehow and by manually drawing out the offset by connecting lines to that original rectangle, without the ability to use guide lines ( I created them but when I tried to draw lines to them, they wouldn't stick) but with the ability to use the shift key and arrows to ensure the lines were along axis, I was able to get the panels created, made the shape into a component and stuck it back in place.

The model is completed and rendering now but this was extremely frustrating. I am curious if anyone else has ever faced an issue like this and if they knew of a fix. After this one wall, I was able to draw offsets on all of the other walls without any issues.

**Some additional details: this wall was originally two walls that were part of separate groups. Upon moving the two groups into another group and exploding them to combine, the face that I was having trouble with was formed. Perhaps this caused the issue?

Thank you to anyone who is able to help!

[ely862me]

There is no help for that.
Best way is to redraw the face. Somehow it got corrupted.
Sketchup sometimes, works in mysterious ways.